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Multi-Object Sketch Animation with Grouping and Motion Trajectory Priors
Guotao Liang, Juncheng Hu, Ximing Xing, Jing Zhang, Qian Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15535 https://

Multi-Object Sketch Animation with Grouping and Motion Trajectory Priors
We introduce GroupSketch, a novel method for vector sketch animation that effectively handles multi-object interactions and complex motions. Existing approaches struggle with these scenarios, either being limited to single-object cases or suffering from temporal inconsistency and poor generalization. To address these limitations, our method adopts a two-stage pipeline comprising Motion Initialization and Motion Refinement. In the first stage, the input sketch is interactively divided into seman…

Experience Level Influences User's Criteria for Avatar Animation Realism
Yudong Huang, Avneet Singh, Mark Roman Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15372 https://

Experience Level Influences User's Criteria for Avatar Animation Realism
The sense of realism in avatar animation is a widely pursued goal in social VR applications. A common approach to enhancing realism is improving the match between avatar motion and real-world human movement. However, experience with existing VR platforms may reshape users' expectations, suggesting that matching reality is not the only path to enhancing the sense of realism. This study examines how different levels of experience with a social VR platform influence users' criteria for evaluating …

A group of 60 Netflix Animation Studios workers requested voluntary union recognition from management as they seek to unionize the Animation Guild (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Netflix Animation Studios and ‘Ted’ Series Production Workers Launch Unionization Drives
The staffers are attempting to join the Animation Guild, which continues to organize aggressively inside the production space.

MMS Player: an open source software for parametric data-driven animation of Sign Language avatars
Fabrizio Nunnari, Shailesh Mishra, Patrick Gebhard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16463

MMS Player: an open source software for parametric data-driven animation of Sign Language avatars
This paper describes the MMS-Player, an open source software able to synthesise sign language animations from a novel sign language representation format called MMS (MultiModal Signstream). The MMS enhances gloss-based representations by adding information on parallel execution of signs, timing, and inflections. The implementation consists of Python scripts for the popular Blender 3D authoring tool and can be invoked via command line or HTTP API. Animations can be rendered as videos or exported…

soccer ball animation #openscad

KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
#tv #animation

The animation of the opposite of finite sets
Benjamin Antieau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13106

The animation of the opposite of finite sets
We give a direct proof of the fact that the animation of the opposite of the category of finite sets is a 1-category.

from my link log —
Game math: precise control over numeric springing.
https://allenchou.net/2015/04/game-math-precise-control-over-numeric-springing/
saved 2025-05-21

Game Math: Precise Control over Numeric Springing | Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou | 周明倫
[latexpage] This post is part of my Game Math Series. Source files are on GitHub Check out this post if you want to see more visual examples of numeric springing. Numeric springing is a very powerful tool for procedural animation. You specify the initial value, initial velocity, target value, and some spring-related parameters; the result

🎞️ Anime.js v4 is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API
#javascript #web

Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine
A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library

Human Feedback Driven Dynamic Speech Emotion Recognition
Ilya Fedorov, Dmitry Korobchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14920…

Human Feedback Driven Dynamic Speech Emotion Recognition
This work proposes to explore a new area of dynamic speech emotion recognition. Unlike traditional methods, we assume that each audio track is associated with a sequence of emotions active at different moments in time. The study particularly focuses on the animation of emotional 3D avatars. We propose a multi-stage method that includes the training of a classical speech emotion recognition model, synthetic generation of emotional sequences, and further model improvement based on human feedback.…

Generating Detailed Character Motion from Blocking Poses
Purvi Goel, Guy Tevet, C. K. Liu, Kayvon Fatahalian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16064 https://arxiv…

Generating Detailed Character Motion from Blocking Poses
We focus on the problem of using generative diffusion models for the task of motion detailing: converting a rough version of a character animation, represented by a sparse set of coarsely posed, and imprecisely timed blocking poses, into a detailed, natural looking character animation. Current diffusion models can address the problem of correcting the timing of imprecisely timed poses, but we find that no good solution exists for leveraging the diffusion prior to enhance a sparse set of blockin…

One of the most fun projects I've worked on recently was the illustration for #Illustration #Work #Design #Animation #HTML

Samsung's One UI 8 build animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be the Galaxy G Fold (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-g…

Exclusive: One UI 8 gives us our first look at Samsung's upcoming tri-fold phone
One UI 8 includes animation files that show off Samsung's first tri-fold, likely to be called the Galaxy G Fold. Check it out!

I'm live! Last two scenes of the animation, getting closer :neofox_3c:
https://twitch.tv/demirramon

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation and Replacement with Holistic Replication
Gang Cheng, Xin Gao, Li Hu, Siqi Hu, Mingyang Huang, Chaonan Ji, Ju Li, Dechao Meng, Jinwei Qi, Penchong Qiao, Zhen Shen, Yafei Song, Ke Sun, Linrui Tian, Feng Wang, Guangyuan Wang, Qi Wang, Zhongjian Wang, Jiayu Xiao, Sheng Xu, Bang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xindi Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Jingren Zhou, Lian Zhuo

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation and Replacement with Holistic Replication
We introduce Wan-Animate, a unified framework for character animation and replacement. Given a character image and a reference video, Wan-Animate can animate the character by precisely replicating the expressions and movements of the character in the video to generate high-fidelity character videos. Alternatively, it can integrate the animated character into the reference video to replace the original character, replicating the scene's lighting and color tone to achieve seamless environmental i…

#DebugArt #STRATA #GenerativeArt #AlgorthmicArt

Bildschirmanimation auch im Mac-Lockscreen verändern: Backdrop 2.0 verfügbar
Wer im Hintergrund seines Macs eine schicke Animation ablaufen lassen will, braucht Spezialtools. Backdrop 2.0 kann das nun auch im Lockscreen.

Das hatte ich auch noch nie: Gewittertierchen hinter der Displayscheibe aber vor der Hintergrundbeleuchtung. Sieht aus wie eine Animation die da nicht hingehört.

#TimMinchin's Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
Amazing animation video for all people who are enlightened by

I am in awe
The animation
the storytelling
The drama
https://youtu.be/DxiMRnqWSQE

More #STRATA...
#GenerativeArt #AlgorthmicArt #Barricelli

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- Tiny is not small enough: High-quality, low-resource facial animation models through hybrid knowl...
Zhen Han, Mattias Teye, Derek Yadgaroff, Judith B\"utepage

AvatarSync: Rethinking Talking-Head Animation through Autoregressive Perspective
Yuchen Deng, Xiuyang Wu, Hai-Tao Zheng, Suiyang Zhang, Yi He, Yuxing Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12052

AvatarSync: Rethinking Talking-Head Animation through Autoregressive Perspective
Existing talking-head animation approaches based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or diffusion models often suffer from inter-frame flicker, identity drift, and slow inference. These limitations inherent to their video generation pipelines restrict their suitability for applications. To address this, we introduce AvatarSync, an autoregressive framework on phoneme representations that generates realistic and controllable talking-head animations from a single reference image, driven dire…

#animation #cartoons

Last weekend the Defa Film Library started a virtual festival titled "The Colorful World of DEFA Animation: A Short History". Throughout July and August every few days a anther example of East German animated film will go online. The overall streaming link on the website is good from now until the end of August.
https://www.

Pixar's Chief Creative Officer Says AI Is the 'Blah Average of Things' - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/pixar-chief-creative-officer-pete-docter-ai-jobs-animation-2025-7

Joel Kuwahara, co-founder and president of production at Fox-owned Bento Box, is leaving the animation studio, which produces Bob's Burgers, Hoops, and more (Joe Otterson/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bento-box-entertai…

Bento Box Entertainment Co-Founder Joel Kuwahara Steps Down
Joel Kuwahara, the co-founder and president of production of Bento Box Entertainment, is stepping down from his role at the Fox-owned animation studio

Before I go to bed, I set the delay and fading animation in my GIF profile picture to a long 5000 on ezgif.com to make sure it doesn’t cause dizziness when people view it!
You can create your own animated GIF profile picture easily at: https://ezgif.com

I’m waiting for someone — with better animation skills than I have — to make a satirical film where Superman and Captain America round up Trump, his government, project 2025 leads, and Netanyahu and dump them all in an alligator-infested swamp where they all get eaten. They are all craven cowards who attempt to feed each other to the gators in an attempt to save themselves.
The film ends with Supe and Cap standing in front of the White House, US flag waiving and the Star Spangled Banne…

Today I learned about Super Sema, a Kenyan animation series about a ten year old superhero girl who uses science, technology, and maths to save society.
https://www.supersema.com/

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Adriano Castro, Simon Hanisch, Matin Fallahi, Thorsten Strufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11138

FacialMotionID: Identifying Users of Mixed Reality Headsets using Abstract Facial Motion Representations
Facial motion capture in mixed reality headsets enables real-time avatar animation, allowing users to convey non-verbal cues during virtual interactions. However, as facial motion data constitutes a behavioral biometric, its use raises novel privacy concerns. With mixed reality systems becoming more immersive and widespread, understanding whether face motion data can lead to user identification or inference of sensitive attributes is increasingly important. To address this, we conducted a stu…

Dream, Lift, Animate: From Single Images to Animatable Gaussian Avatars
Marcel C. B\"uhler, Ye Yuan, Xueting Li, Yangyi Huang, Koki Nagano, Umar Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15979

Dream, Lift, Animate: From Single Images to Animatable Gaussian Avatars
We introduce Dream, Lift, Animate (DLA), a novel framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human avatars from a single image. This is achieved by leveraging multi-view generation, 3D Gaussian lifting, and pose-aware UV-space mapping of 3D Gaussians. Given an image, we first dream plausible multi-views using a video diffusion model, capturing rich geometric and appearance details. These views are then lifted into unstructured 3D Gaussians. To enable animation, we propose a transformer-based enco…

AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long Animation Generation
Lisai Zhang, Baohan Xu, Siqian Yang, Mingyu Yin, Jing Liu, Chao Xu, Siqi Wang, Yidi Wu, Yuxin Hong, Zihao Zhang, Yanzhang Liang, Yudong Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18781

AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long Animation Generation
We present AniME, a director-oriented multi-agent system for automated long-form anime production, covering the full workflow from a story to the final video. The director agent keeps a global memory for the whole workflow, and coordinates several downstream specialized agents. By integrating customized Model Context Protocol (MCP) with downstream model instruction, the specialized agent adaptively selects control conditions for diverse sub-tasks. AniME produces cinematic animation with consist…

If you like some nice animated student films and trailers in your feed, follow @…, a new account of the university of applied sciences in Potsdam, Germany!
#animation #StudentFilm

I just saw an animation showing the evolution of the number of artificial satellites in orbit around Earth:
- 1957: 1
- 1960: 10
- 1965: 100
- 1996: 1'000
- 2016: 2'000
- 2024: 10'000
- 2025: 14'000

Hm, unexpected. #KPopDemonHunters von Sony Animation war überraschend brauchbar im Vergleich zum sonstigen Animations-Slop, der aktuell so rumfliegt. Nicht gut, aber durchaus brauchbar, wenn man Musicals und Animation mag.

DiTalker: A Unified DiT-based Framework for High-Quality and Speaking Styles Controllable Portrait Animation
He Feng, Yongjia Ma, Donglin Di, Lei Fan, Tonghua Su, Xiangqian Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06511

DiTalker: A Unified DiT-based Framework for High-Quality and Speaking Styles Controllable Portrait Animation
Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking styles. Existing diffusion-based portrait animation methods primarily focus on lip synchronization or static emotion transformation, often overlooking dynamic styles such as head movements. Moreover, most of these methods rely on a dual U-Net architecture, whic…

Learning to use my media tools- I made some video therapy.

I made the music in Reason and the animation in After Effects. I might have borrowed a few pictures from the web too.
It might not be pretty, but it's also not AI!
#resist #support

China's state TV broadcaster has revealed details of a new
"graphite bomb"
that can cause a "complete loss of electricity" across an area of 10,000 square meters,
or knock out entire power stations, the South China Morning Post reported.
An animated video released by China's CCTV showed a missile being launched from a ground-based launcher
and then flying to a target where it releases 90 small submunitions.
They then bounce on t…

Video teases new Chinese blackout bomb that can knock out enemy power stations
Animation shared by state broadcaster shows what appears to be graphite bomb designed to disrupt command and control systems.

Progressing Level-of-Detail Animation of Volumetric Elastodynamics
Jiayi Eris Zhang, Doug L. James, Danny M. Kaufman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14177 https://

Progressing Level-of-Detail Animation of Volumetric Elastodynamics
We extend the progressive dynamics model (Zhang et al., 2024) from cloth and shell simulation to volumetric finite elements, enabling an efficient level-of-detail (LOD) animation-design pipeline with predictive coarse-resolution previews facilitating rapid iterative design for a final, to-be-generated, high-resolution animation of volumetric elastodynamics. This extension to volumetric domains poses significant new challenges, including the construction of suitable mesh hierarchies and the defi…

Next up in our time-based media gallery: an installation of Inuk artist asinnajaq's film "Three Thousand," which combines archival footage from the National Film Board of Canada with new footage, sound and animation to focus on resilience and community in Inuit life. Read more: https:/…

idspispopd

Luminate: Apple TV has all but abandoned animated shows, ordering just six animated series in 2024, a 60% drop compared to 15 orders each in 2022 and 2023 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Where Did All the Apple TV+ Animation Go?
Even with its 'Peanuts' rights, the Apple SVOD service has seemingly all but abandoned cartoons.

VidAnimator: User-Guided Stylized 3D Character Animation from Human Videos
Xinwu Ye, Jun-Hsiang Yao, Jielin Feng, Shuhong Mei, Xingyu Lan, Siming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01878

VidAnimator: User-Guided Stylized 3D Character Animation from Human Videos
With captivating visual effects, stylized 3D character animation has gained widespread use in cinematic production, advertising, social media, and the potential development of virtual reality (VR) non-player characters (NPCs). However, animating stylized 3D characters often requires significant time and effort from animators. We propose a mixed-initiative framework and interactive system to enable stylized 3D characters to mimic motion in human videos. The framework takes a single-view human vi…

InfiniteTalk: Audio-driven Video Generation for Sparse-Frame Video Dubbing
Shaoshu Yang, Zhe Kong, Feng Gao, Meng Cheng, Xiangyu Liu, Yong Zhang, Zhuoliang Kang, Wenhan Luo, Xunliang Cai, Ran He, Xiaoming Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14033

InfiniteTalk: Audio-driven Video Generation for Sparse-Frame Video Dubbing
Recent breakthroughs in video AIGC have ushered in a transformative era for audio-driven human animation. However, conventional video dubbing techniques remain constrained to mouth region editing, resulting in discordant facial expressions and body gestures that compromise viewer immersion. To overcome this limitation, we introduce sparse-frame video dubbing, a novel paradigm that strategically preserves reference keyframes to maintain identity, iconic gestures, and camera trajectories while en…

This looks good. I've never heard of this glitch animation company before. it just does web episode animations?
Knights of Guinevere
#animation

#Accessibility modelers using #r5r #rstats, check this GUI for playing around with R5 network. If many people find it useful, I would get signal if I should invest any more free time into it.

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01945

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research value. Existing studies are limited to short-term colorization. These studies adopt a local paradigm, fusing overlapping features to achieve smooth transitions between local segments. However, the local paradigm neglects global information, failing to maintai…

South Korea's CJ ENM, which produced Parasite, unveils a comprehensive AI content strategy at the premiere of its first fully AI-generated animation series (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cj-enm-ai-strategy-cat-biggie-12…

CJ ENM Debuts AI Animation 'Cat Biggie' as Part of New AI Strategy
CJ ENM unveils AI content strategy with debut of 'Cat Biggie,' a 100% AI-generated animation series, plus new proprietary production tools.

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Tianrun Qiu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21962

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Generative AI assistants have been widely used in front-end programming. However, besides code writing, developers often encounter the need to generate animation effects. As novices in creative design without the assistance of professional designers, developers typically face difficulties in describing, designing, and implementing desired animations. To address this issue, we conducted a formative study (N=6) to identify the challenges that code developers face when dealing with animation desig…

TIL (lors de la défense d’un mémoire) : Il y a 58 ans que l’on a hissé « un ordinateur géant ultra-moderne » au cinquième étage d’une banque genevois.
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=TDG19670613-01.2.8.4

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/7]:
- Generative AI for Cel-Animation: A Survey
Tang, Guo, Liu, Wang, Hua, Zhong, Xiao, Huang, Song, Liang, Song, He, Bi, Feng, Li, Zhang, Xu

Last post for today, but I had to do the video of my #openscad woven ribbon ball model. #creativecoding

This is really lovely. #animation

Here's a Thinking Machines-inspired text animation for your terminal https://gist.githubusercontent.com/zeroeth/c0b83e7a856d01c9db46ee6d414a1654/raw/12ed0182b1d469a9ee861fb269ff6c02c7d3cee6/mode5.c

A look at the history of anime in the US, its impact, and the forces that keep it distinct from other mass-market animation, including Japanese IP law (Joshua Hunt/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z
“Demon Slayer” is just the latest confirmation of how Japan’s once-distinctive animation style has become a global visual language.

Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models
Chaoyue Song, Xiu Li, Fan Yang, Zhongcong Xu, Jiacheng Wei, Fayao Liu, Jiashi Feng, Guosheng Lin, Jianfeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10898

Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models
Modern interactive applications increasingly demand dynamic 3D content, yet the transformation of static 3D models into animated assets constitutes a significant bottleneck in content creation pipelines. While recent advances in generative AI have revolutionized static 3D model creation, rigging and animation continue to depend heavily on expert intervention. We present Puppeteer, a comprehensive framework that addresses both automatic rigging and animation for diverse 3D objects. Our system fi…

FARM: Frame-Accelerated Augmentation and Residual Mixture-of-Experts for Physics-Based High-Dynamic Humanoid Control
Tan Jing, Shiting Chen, Yangfan Li, Weisheng Xu, Renjing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19926

FARM: Frame-Accelerated Augmentation and Residual Mixture-of-Experts for Physics-Based High-Dynamic Humanoid Control
Unified physics-based humanoid controllers are pivotal for robotics and character animation, yet models that excel on gentle, everyday motions still stumble on explosive actions, hampering real-world deployment. We bridge this gap with FARM (Frame-Accelerated Augmentation and Residual Mixture-of-Experts), an end-to-end framework composed of frame-accelerated augmentation, a robust base controller, and a residual mixture-of-experts (MoE). Frame-accelerated augmentation exposes the model to high-…

Evaluating Idle Animation Believability: a User Perspective
Eneko Atxa Landa, Elena Lazkano, Igor Rodriguez, Itsaso Rodr\'iguez-Moreno, Itziar Irigoien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05023

Evaluating Idle Animation Believability: a User Perspective
Animating realistic avatars requires using high quality animations for every possible state the avatar can be in. This includes actions like walking or running, but also subtle movements that convey emotions and personality. Idle animations, such as standing, breathing or looking around, are crucial for realism and believability. In games and virtual applications, these are often handcrafted or recorded with actors, but this is costly. Furthermore, recording realistic idle animations can be ver…

I can't believe how great #KPopDemonHunters is! Great animation, but this one is of course full of pop music: the first act has not one but two catchy songs and stylish music videos with barely a moment to catch a breath.
Rhyming "mascara" with "napalm era"? Duuuuude.
And then there's my favourite: "mirror mirror on the phone" 😁

Live again! Will we finish the animation TODAY? Let's find out!
#Livestream #FurryLivestream

Demirramon - Twitch
Animating | Chains of Fate - Good Evening Sun Sim - day 41

From Rigging to Waving: 3D-Guided Diffusion for Natural Animation of Hand-Drawn Characters
Jie Zhou, Linzi Qu, Miu-Ling Lam, Hongbo Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06573 https://

From Rigging to Waving: 3D-Guided Diffusion for Natural Animation of Hand-Drawn Characters
Hand-drawn character animation is a vibrant field in computer graphics, presenting challenges in achieving geometric consistency while conveying expressive motion. Traditional skeletal animation methods maintain geometric consistency but struggle with complex non-rigid elements like flowing hair and skirts, leading to unnatural deformation. Conversely, video diffusion models synthesize realistic dynamics but often create geometric distortions in stylized drawings due to domain gaps. This work p…

Kling-Avatar: Grounding Multimodal Instructions for Cascaded Long-Duration Avatar Animation Synthesis
Yikang Ding, Jiwen Liu, Wenyuan Zhang, Zekun Wang, Wentao Hu, Liyuan Cui, Mingming Lao, Yingchao Shao, Hui Liu, Xiaohan Li, Ming Chen, Xiaoqiang Liu, Yu-Shen Liu, Pengfei Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09595

Kling-Avatar: Grounding Multimodal Instructions for Cascaded Long-Duration Avatar Animation Synthesis
Recent advances in audio-driven avatar video generation have significantly enhanced audio-visual realism. However, existing methods treat instruction conditioning merely as low-level tracking driven by acoustic or visual cues, without modeling the communicative purpose conveyed by the instructions. This limitation compromises their narrative coherence and character expressiveness. To bridge this gap, we introduce Kling-Avatar, a novel cascaded framework that unifies multimodal instruction under…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Omni Trio:
🎵 Renegade Snares
#OmniTrio
https://traxhaven.bandcamp.com/track/omni-trio-renegade-snares-portway-re-animation
https://open.spotify.com/track/4M04cLgZVSQq97IG2Uh2NE

DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination
Liwenhan Xie, Jiayi Zhou, Anyi Rao, Huamin Qu, Xinhuan Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22051

DataSway: Vivifying Metaphoric Visualization with Animation Clip Generation and Coordination
Animating metaphoric visualizations brings data to life, enhancing the comprehension of abstract data encodings and fostering deeper engagement. However, creators face significant challenges in designing these animations, such as crafting motions that align semantically with the metaphors, maintaining faithful data representation during animation, and seamlessly integrating interactivity. We propose a human-AI co-creation workflow that facilitates creating animations for SVG-based metaphoric vi…

'BoJack Horseman' Creator's 'Long Story Short' Renewed for Season 2 #tv

Occlusion-robust Stylization for Drawing-based 3D Animation
Sunjae Yoon, Gwanhyeong Koo, Younghwan Lee, Ji Woo Hong, Chang D. Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00398 https://

Occlusion-robust Stylization for Drawing-based 3D Animation
3D animation aims to generate a 3D animated video from an input image and a target 3D motion sequence. Recent advances in image-to-3D models enable the creation of animations directly from user-hand drawings. Distinguished from conventional 3D animation, drawing-based 3D animation is crucial to preserve artist's unique style properties, such as rough contours and distinct stroke patterns. However, recent methods still exhibit quality deterioration in style properties, especially under occlusion…

Durian: Dual Reference-guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfer
Hyunsoo Cha, Byungjun Kim, Hanbyul Joo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04434 https://ar…

Durian: Dual Reference-guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfer
We present Durian, the first method for generating portrait animation videos with facial attribute transfer from a given reference image to a target portrait in a zero-shot manner. To enable high-fidelity and spatially consistent attribute transfer across frames, we introduce dual reference networks that inject spatial features from both the portrait and attribute images into the denoising process of a diffusion model. We train the model using a self-reconstruction formulation, where two frames…

Coyote vs. Acme 8.28.26 - teaser poster and stills 💣💥
#movies #CoyoteVsAcme #2026Movies #animation

TIL Homer Simpson's namesake was born in Saskatchewan.
Oh, and Marge dies. (don't worry, no spoilers, everyone dies!)
#Simpsons #Animation #TIL #Saskatchewan #MattGroening
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/the-simsons-marge-simpson-dies-1.7570422

In case somebody needs to lip sync some animation: https://mastodon.social/@ancientjames/114952235580133545

MienCap: Realtime Performance-Based Facial Animation with Live Mood Dynamics
Ye Pan, Ruisi Zhang, Jingying Wang, Nengfu Chen, Yilin Qiu, Yu Ding, Kenny Mitchell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04687

MienCap: Realtime Performance-Based Facial Animation with Live Mood Dynamics
Our purpose is to improve performance-based animation which can drive believable 3D stylized characters that are truly perceptual. By combining traditional blendshape animation techniques with multiple machine learning models, we present both non-real time and real time solutions which drive character expressions in a geometrically consistent and perceptually valid way. For the non-real time system, we propose a 3D emotion transfer network makes use of a 2D human image to generate a stylized 3D…

Speak2Sign3D: A Multi-modal Pipeline for English Speech to American Sign Language Animation
Kazi Mahathir Rahman, Naveed Imtiaz Nafis, Md. Farhan Sadik, Mohammad Al Rafi, Mehedi Hasan Shahed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06530

Speak2Sign3D: A Multi-modal Pipeline for English Speech to American Sign Language Animation
Helping deaf and hard-of-hearing people communicate more easily is the main goal of Automatic Sign Language Translation. Although most past research has focused on turning sign language into text, doing the reverse, turning spoken English into sign language animations, has been largely overlooked. That's because it involves multiple steps, such as understanding speech, translating it into sign-friendly grammar, and generating natural human motion. In this work, we introduce a complete pipeline …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design using Large Language Models
Tiffany Tseng, Ruijia Cheng, Jeffrey Nichols

Express4D: Expressive, Friendly, and Extensible 4D Facial Motion Generation Benchmark
Yaron Aloni, Rotem Shalev-Arkushin, Yonatan Shafir, Guy Tevet, Ohad Fried, Amit Haim Bermano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12438

Express4D: Expressive, Friendly, and Extensible 4D Facial Motion Generation Benchmark
Dynamic facial expression generation from natural language is a crucial task in Computer Graphics, with applications in Animation, Virtual Avatars, and Human-Computer Interaction. However, current generative models suffer from datasets that are either speech-driven or limited to coarse emotion labels, lacking the nuanced, expressive descriptions needed for fine-grained control, and were captured using elaborate and expensive equipment. We hence present a new dataset of facial motion sequences f…

Since I'm done with my animation, we'll be playing Half-Life 2 to take a little break! Come join me!
#Livestream

Demirramon - Twitch
Hey! My name is Demi. I'm a digital artist/animator, software developer, and 3D artist. Also a goober. Learn more about me in my website!

Face2VoiceSync: Lightweight Face-Voice Consistency for Text-Driven Talking Face Generation
Fang Kang, Yin Cao, Haoyu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19225 https://

Face2VoiceSync: Lightweight Face-Voice Consistency for Text-Driven Talking Face Generation
Recent studies in speech-driven talking face generation achieve promising results, but their reliance on fixed-driven speech limits further applications (e.g., face-voice mismatch). Thus, we extend the task to a more challenging setting: given a face image and text to speak, generating both talking face animation and its corresponding speeches. Accordingly, we propose a novel framework, Face2VoiceSync, with several novel contributions: 1) Voice-Face Alignment, ensuring generated voices match fa…

RAP: Real-time Audio-driven Portrait Animation with Video Diffusion Transformer
Fangyu Du, Taiqing Li, Ziwei Zhang, Qian Qiao, Tan Yu, Dingcheng Zhen, Xu Jia, Yang Yang, Shunshun Yin, Siyuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05115

RAP: Real-time Audio-driven Portrait Animation with Video Diffusion Transformer
Audio-driven portrait animation aims to synthesize realistic and natural talking head videos from an input audio signal and a single reference image. While existing methods achieve high-quality results by leveraging high-dimensional intermediate representations and explicitly modeling motion dynamics, their computational complexity renders them unsuitable for real-time deployment. Real-time inference imposes stringent latency and memory constraints, often necessitating the use of highly compres…

Tiny is not small enough: High-quality, low-resource facial animation models through hybrid knowledge distillation
Zhen Han, Mattias Teye, Derek Yadgaroff, Judith B\"utepage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18352

Tiny is not small enough: High-quality, low-resource facial animation models through hybrid knowledge distillation
The training of high-quality, robust machine learning models for speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a large, diverse dataset of high-quality audio-animation pairs. To overcome the lack of such a dataset, recent work has introduced large pre-trained speech encoders that are robust to variations in the input audio and, therefore, enable the facial animation model to generalize across speakers, audio quality, and languages. However, the resulting facial animation models are prohibitively l…

This is a really good interview with the creator of #KPopDemonHunters ! It covers her personal connection to the story and has some bits about the animation process as well (most people working in VFX will know this already but it’s really cute how this is covered in an interview that’s geared towards laypeople).

Think2Sing: Orchestrating Structured Motion Subtitles for Singing-Driven 3D Head Animation
Zikai Huang, Yihan Zhou, Xuemiao Xu, Cheng Xu, Xiaofen Xing, Jing Qin, Shengfeng He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02278

Think2Sing: Orchestrating Structured Motion Subtitles for Singing-Driven 3D Head Animation
Singing-driven 3D head animation is a challenging yet promising task with applications in virtual avatars, entertainment, and education. Unlike speech, singing involves richer emotional nuance, dynamic prosody, and lyric-based semantics, requiring the synthesis of fine-grained, temporally coherent facial motion. Existing speech-driven approaches often produce oversimplified, emotionally flat, and semantically inconsistent results, which are insufficient for singing animation. To address this, w…

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- Learning Phonetic Context-Dependent Viseme for Enhancing Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation
Hyung Kyu Kim, Hak Gu Kim

MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
Shuyang Xu, Zhiyang Dou, Mingyi Shi, Liang Pan, Leo Ho, Jingbo Wang, Yuan Liu, Cheng Lin, Yuexin Ma, Wenping Wang, Taku Komura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11949

MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
Enabling virtual humans to dynamically and realistically respond to diverse auditory stimuli remains a key challenge in character animation, demanding the integration of perceptual modeling and motion synthesis. Despite its significance, this task remains largely unexplored. Most previous works have primarily focused on mapping modalities like speech, audio, and music to generate human motion. As of yet, these models typically overlook the impact of spatial features encoded in spatial audio sig…

AnimaX: Animating the Inanimate in 3D with Joint Video-Pose Diffusion Models
Zehuan Huang, Haoran Feng, Yangtian Sun, Yuanchen Guo, Yanpei Cao, Lu Sheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19851

AnimaX: Animating the Inanimate in 3D with Joint Video-Pose Diffusion Models
We present AnimaX, a feed-forward 3D animation framework that bridges the motion priors of video diffusion models with the controllable structure of skeleton-based animation. Traditional motion synthesis methods are either restricted to fixed skeletal topologies or require costly optimization in high-dimensional deformation spaces. In contrast, AnimaX effectively transfers video-based motion knowledge to the 3D domain, supporting diverse articulated meshes with arbitrary skeletons. Our method r…

HPR3D: Hierarchical Proxy Representation for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction and Controllable Editing
Tielong Wang, Yuxuan Xiong, Jinfan Liu, Zhifan Zhang, Ye Chen, Yue Shi, Bingbing Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11971

HPR3D: Hierarchical Proxy Representation for High-Fidelity 3D Reconstruction and Controllable Editing
Current 3D representations like meshes, voxels, point clouds, and NeRF-based neural implicit fields exhibit significant limitations: they are often task-specific, lacking universal applicability across reconstruction, generation, editing, and driving. While meshes offer high precision, their dense vertex data complicates editing; NeRFs deliver excellent rendering but suffer from structural ambiguity, hindering animation and manipulation; all representations inherently struggle with the trade-of…

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- AniCrafter: Customizing Realistic Human-Centric Animation via Avatar-Background Conditioning in V...
Niu, Cao, Zhan, Zhu, Ma, Zhao, Zeng, Zhong, Sun, Zheng

Audio2Face-3D: Audio-driven Realistic Facial Animation For Digital Avatars
NVIDIA, :, Chaeyeon Chung, Ilya Fedorov, Michael Huang, Aleksey Karmanov, Dmitry Korobchenko, Roger Ribera, Yeongho Seol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16401

Audio2Face-3D: Audio-driven Realistic Facial Animation For Digital Avatars
Audio-driven facial animation presents an effective solution for animating digital avatars. In this paper, we detail the technical aspects of NVIDIA Audio2Face-3D, including data acquisition, network architecture, retargeting methodology, evaluation metrics, and use cases. Audio2Face-3D system enables real-time interaction between human users and interactive avatars, facilitating facial animation authoring for game characters. To assist digital avatar creators and game developers in generating …

KinemaFX: A Kinematic-Driven Interactive System for Particle Effect Exploration and Customization
Yifei Zhang, Lin-Ping Yuan, Yuheng Zhao, Jielin Feng, Siming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19782

KinemaFX: A Kinematic-Driven Interactive System for Particle Effect Exploration and Customization
Particle effects are widely used in games and animation to simulate natural phenomena or stylized visual effects. However, creating effect artworks is challenging for non-expert users due to their lack of specialized skills, particularly in finding particle effects with kinematic behaviors that match their intent. To address these issues, we present KinemaFX, a kinematic-driven interactive system, to assist non-expert users in constructing customized particle effect artworks. We propose a conce…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
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- EchoMimicV2: Towards Striking, Simplified, and Semi-Body Human Animation
Rang Meng, Xingyu Zhang, Yuming Li, Chenguang Ma

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
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- EchoMimicV3: 1.3B Parameters are All You Need for Unified Multi-Modal and Multi-Task Human Animation
Rang Meng, Yan Wang, Weipeng Wu, Ruobing Zheng, Yuming Li, Chenguang Ma

Controllable Single-shot Animation Blending with Temporal Conditioning
Eleni Tselepi, Spyridon Thermos, Gerasimos Potamianos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18525 https://

Controllable Single-shot Animation Blending with Temporal Conditioning
Training a generative model on a single human skeletal motion sequence without being bound to a specific kinematic tree has drawn significant attention from the animation community. Unlike text-to-motion generation, single-shot models allow animators to controllably generate variations of existing motion patterns without requiring additional data or extensive retraining. However, existing single-shot methods do not explicitly offer a controllable framework for blending two or more motions withi…

FramePrompt: In-context Controllable Animation with Zero Structural Changes
Guian Fang, Yuchao Gu, Mike Zheng Shou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17301 https:/…

FramePrompt: In-context Controllable Animation with Zero Structural Changes
Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on complex architectures, explicit guider modules, or multi-stage processing pipelines, which increase structural overhead and hinder deployment. Inspired by the strong visual context modeling capacity of pre-trained video diffusion transformers, we propose Fram…

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- OmniHuman-1: Rethinking the Scaling-Up of One-Stage Conditioned Human Animation Models
Gaojie Lin, Jianwen Jiang, Jiaqi Yang, Zerong Zheng, Chao Liang

Point cloud segmentation for 3D Clothed Human Layering
Davide Garavaso, Federico Masi, Pietro Musoni, Umberto Castellani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05531 https://

Point cloud segmentation for 3D Clothed Human Layering
3D Cloth modeling and simulation is essential for avatars creation in several fields, such as fashion, entertainment, and animation. Achieving high-quality results is challenging due to the large variability of clothed body especially in the generation of realistic wrinkles. 3D scan acquisitions provide more accuracy in the representation of real-world objects but lack semantic information that can be inferred with a reliable semantic reconstruction pipeline. To this aim, shape segmentation pla…

GRMM: Real-Time High-Fidelity Gaussian Morphable Head Model with Learned Residuals
Mohit Mendiratta, Mayur Deshmukh, Kartik Teotia, Vladislav Golyanik, Adam Kortylewski, Christian Theobalt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02141

GRMM: Real-Time High-Fidelity Gaussian Morphable Head Model with Learned Residuals
3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) enable controllable facial geometry and expression editing for reconstruction, animation, and AR/VR, but traditional PCA-based mesh models are limited in resolution, detail, and photorealism. Neural volumetric methods improve realism but remain too slow for interactive use. Recent Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based facial models achieve fast, high-quality rendering but still depend solely on a mesh-based 3DMM prior for expression control, limiting their ability to captu…

Semiautomatic Simplification
Gong Li, Benjamin Watson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01116 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01116

Semiautomatic Simplification
We present semisimp, a tool for semiautomatic simplification of three dimensional polygonal models. Existing automatic simplification technology is quite mature, but is not sensitive to the heightened importance of distinct semantic model regions such as faces and limbs, nor to simplification constraints imposed by model usage such as animation. semisimp allows users to preserve such regions by intervening in the simplification process. Users can manipulate the order in which basic simplificati…

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- V2M4: 4D Mesh Animation Reconstruction from a Single Monocular Video
Jianqi Chen, Biao Zhang, Xiangjun Tang, Peter Wonka

Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization via Separating Reference Representations
Dingkun Yan, Xinrui Wang, Zhuoru Li, Suguru Saito, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Jiaxian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17620

Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization via Separating Reference Representations
Reference-based sketch colorization methods have garnered significant attention for the potential application in animation and digital illustration production. However, most existing methods are trained with image triplets of sketch, reference, and ground truth that are semantically and spatially similar, while real-world references and sketches often exhibit substantial misalignment. This mismatch in data distribution between training and inference leads to overfitting, consequently resulting …

GeoAvatar: Adaptive Geometrical Gaussian Splatting for 3D Head Avatar
SeungJun Moon, Hah Min Lew, Seungeun Lee, Ji-Su Kang, Gyeong-Moon Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18155 htt…

GeoAvatar: Adaptive Geometrical Gaussian Splatting for 3D Head Avatar
Despite recent progress in 3D head avatar generation, balancing identity preservation, i.e., reconstruction, with novel poses and expressions, i.e., animation, remains a challenge. Existing methods struggle to adapt Gaussians to varying geometrical deviations across facial regions, resulting in suboptimal quality. To address this, we propose GeoAvatar, a framework for adaptive geometrical Gaussian Splatting. GeoAvatar leverages Adaptive Pre-allocation Stage (APS), an unsupervised method that se…